Caspio Roadmap: Grid Editing, Bulk Actions, and More

October 10, 2014

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User feedback has always been an important part of Caspio’s product roadmap planning. As we plan for the upcoming releases, we’d like to share some important updates with our user community, as well as get your feedback.

One major feature that is currently under development is “bulk actions” in Report DataPages, currently scheduled for release at the beginning of 2015.

Here are some highlights about this feature:

Grid Edit – In tabular reports, you can switch between the current display-only mode to a grid-edit mode. In grid-edit mode, you can edit each cell just like you currently can in Table Datasheets inside Caspio Bridge. The updated values will be automatically saved once the cursor moves to another row. No need to click a submit button or reload the page.

New Action Bar – The action bar is like a toolbar that will appear on top of your reports. This is where icons for delete, update and other actions will be shown.

Bulk Edit – In addition to grid-edit, you will also be able to update fields for multiple records using a bulk-edit operation. First, select the records you want to update and click on the bulk-edit icon. This will pop up an interface to update any fields that are configured for bulk editing.

Bulk Delete – With the ability to update multiple records, you can also enable the option to bulk-delete multiple records. This can be done by selecting the records you want to delete and then clicking on the delete icon in the action bar.

Enhanced Inline Insert and Inline Edit – Currently, inline editing can only be performed through text fields. With this enhancement, you will be able to use dropdowns, checkboxes and other elements during inline editing.

Sorting & Paging Enhancements – Sorting and paging in results sets will be much faster using dynamic rendering that doesn’t require the entire page to be reloaded.

Record Auto-Load Instead of Paging – You will be able to enable auto-scroll and auto-load of records instead of paging in results sets. New records will automatically appear as you scroll down the page.

Frozen Headers in Tabular Reports – You can also choose to freeze the top header row of tabular reports whenever auto-scroll is enabled. Your header row will then remain visible at all times for improved usability.

Let us know what you think about these upcoming features, or if you have any ideas for further enhancement. Please leave a comment below with your thoughts.

Additionally, we would also like to know if you are interested in keeping the existing “non-dynamic” reports, or if you care about page-reload with each new page of data.

Do you (or will you) offer data output as JSON? Having this option to pull data out of Capsio using JSON would increase my use of it.

Stephen Benford

These will most definitely be welcome enhancements to the Caspio community I am sure! I for one know that I will be making use of the bulk and inline editing.
I am curious to know when you plan to introduce a pivot table style of reporting.

Mason

These are great and must-have features! Bulk edit and delete saves me daily export/import tasks (to perform these in Excel or Access) if I can perform these operations within Bridge. Thank you!

Thank you for the suggestion. Pivots are an important functionality and will certainly be released in the first half of 2015.

caspio

We expect mass update features to be available very early next year. Currently in development. We love to know if you or other users have any feedback about the specifics.

caspio

Mason, thank you for your feedback and we are happy to know that this feature will be of value to you. Please do let us know if you have any comments about the specifics of how this feature is planned.

Søren Elisiussen

This is great news, have been eagerly awaiting the bulk edit feature. However, I’d like to see the abillity to also bulk update records automatically through input forms or reports, based on user input.

simon

Bring it on these are much awaited and needed improvements, Keep old and
new paging methods. Also we need more charting options such as
speedometer, for making dash board reports. Please, please don’t take
too long to release them, a nice surprise christmas present of a new
version would be very nice 🙂

Marcus

Fantastic News! I am excited to try these out. You mentioned a “pop up interface to update any fields that are configured for bulk editing”. Will the popup be created like a datapage so it can be customized with lookup tables and such just like any other datapage?

George Peacock

The enhanced inline editing looks really useful. Bulk Edit is also long overdue – something was was really a missing feature in my view. Great to see more enhancements coming – do echo however an earlier point please allow us to retien current look and feel for our existing users on apps and be abel to uprage – selectively add- the new features.

Chad Love

Can’t wait to try them out!!!

David Ford

I see a lot of these feature are tryign to emulate spreadsheets in Caspio. One feature I would like is an Html edit box in Html pages and html sections in a page. Most other online web design production sites provied this, ie email marketing like mail chimp.

caspio

David, this feature was released a few months ago. Thanks for the suggestion.